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4:44pm WAT Wednesday 01 February 2006

Today was the first day of Term 2. Fighting Goats now meet at 8am, and Fantastic Rabbits at 9:30am. For Fighting Goats, I used Kellie's food names and description game, and had them make various sentences: Kimchi is spicy. Oranges are sweeter than lemons.

Fantastic Rabbits were more self-directed; I had them basically plan out the next 6 days of their lessons using "how about we ______ on (date)?" This worked well, I believe. Then we played pict-o-grams, and then a round of boggle.

Tomorrow we will play more boggle and perhaps more pictograms. I'd love to play pictograms with the GET Ts and CCs.

Immediately after classes, Kyoko and I taught Super Beginner and Beginner GET Opens. I got to use the clock I made (and Kiichi laminated) and it worked quite well. Hooray! I labeled it "Here's to good times on all past, present, and future voyages. - ROB and the 52nd GET Team"

I hope it will be used for years.

Lunch with Kyoko after that, and I gave her the plan for tomorrow's lesson. It's much less spelled out than the one I wrote for today. I'm sure it will go quite well, though.

Naptime after that and now awake for a little bit of バラバラ stuff this afternoon.

10:04pm WAT Wednesday 01 February 2006

Pretty much have gotten everything done today except laundry and something else. Carla reminded me that we (me, Carla, Laura) are scheduled to do an event on February 4th: we're going to play a Family Feud style game, so tonight at dinner we sorted out the questions we'll be asking and split up the GETs and CCs and a couple of the staff to ask questions. I've just got two more people to ask: Kentaro and Ai.

I've already asked Phil, Carl, Dan, Pepe, Nori, Stacy, Joel, Tony, and myself.

During the day today I meditated a lot on my reactions and sensations regarding changes of pace in relationships. Really interesting to catch feelings just as they come up. I'm sure I'll get even better at this with a bit of practice.

I invited the 3029 girls to dinner, though I didn't know if the 3027 boys would be able to join. Carl, for one, was not. Neither was Dan. Francois is still in my pants pocket, so he didn't come. But I was there, though in the meeting with Carla. Rei as well, and we talked as much as was reasonable for sitting somewhat far from each other.

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12:05am WAT Thursday 02 February 2006

Nice.

Got all my people interviewed, finishing with Kentaro in his room with Tony, Misato and some other cat chillin' out in their welcoming space, and then Ai, up in P-sen, who had been talking to Carl about his brother coming onboard in Rio de Janeiro. I asked a final question at the end, "what two things does Rei like?" because Ai and Rei went to uni together and were on the same windsurfing team, and got an even more fantastic answer than I expected.

Rolled downstairs and found their door open with Stacy at the hands of nurse Yuki, and Rei working on some translation work.

Right now, though, I gots to go to bed bed bed.